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  • Worked in terrible conditions
  • Includes: smells of blood, antiseptic, unwashed bodies, dead and servely injured patients
  • Diseases and illness lingered around the hospital
  • Countless died due to these diseases
  • By the end of the war, nurses reached a radical break through
  • Blood transfusion
  • Had little medical supply
  • Little fresh water
  • Vastly over crowded
  • Severely injured soldiers sent back to Australia

Matron Wilson displays the poor conditions in the Hospitals in Galipoli

9 August — Found 150 patients lying on the ground — no equipment whatever … had no water to drink or wash.

10 August — >Still no water … convoy arrived at night and used up all our private things, soap etc, tore up clothes [for bandages].

11 August — Convoy arrived — about 400 — no equipment whatever … Just laid the men on the ground and gave them a drink. Very many badly shattered, nearly all stretcher cases … Tents were erected over them as quickly as possible … All we can do is feed them and dress their wounds … A good many died … It is just too awful — one could never describe the scenes — could only wish all I knew to be killed outright.

[Grace Wilson, in Bassett, Guns and Brooches, p.46]

  • Traveled to: Britain, India, France, Belgium, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, The Mediterranean and the Middle East
  • Dealt with the: war, sick, wounded, traumatized and dead
  • 25 died during their service
  • 1 due to direct enemy action
  • Many returned home traumatized
  • Couldn't readjust to their old life
  • Only 4 nurses where acknowledged for their bravery
  • In 1999, all nurses recongnised in the Australian War Memorial
  • Women where unable to fight in the war
  • Volunteered as nurses to take care of wounded soldiers
  • Worked in hospitals, hospital ships and trains
  • 2000 traveled to other countries to support soldiers and civilians
  • Usually in close range of battlefields
  • Had to be resilient due to the surroundings
  • Worked with: traumatised patients, injuries and deaths

Nurse Sister Narrelle Hobbs served with the Australian forces in Gallipoli and she wrote:

“I've been a soldier now for nearly three years, and please God I will go right to the end ... if anything happened, and I too passed out, well, there would be no finer way, and no way in which I would be happier, than to lay down one's life for the men who have given everything”

(Hobbs, 1917)

"'These women worked their long hours among such surroundings without collapsing spoke volumes for their will power and sense of duty. The place reeked with the odours of blood, antiseptic dressings and unwashed bodies. The nurses saw soldiers in their most pitiful state – wounded, blood-stained, dirty''

Lieutenant Harold Williams, wounded in September 1918

  • Although the nurses have been recognized for their service
  • Took almost 75 years for recognition
  • Today, women are still second class
  • Male's have more opportunities then females
  • True equality of the sexes is yet to be achieved
  • The Allies women were assuring their allegiance to fight
  • their offer was rejected
  • Australian women were not able to fight
  • made them feel useless
  • women weren't even allowed to work in factories
  • seen as "unladylike"
  • uphold female tradition: cooking, slaving through house hold chores
  • these issues related to sexism
  • women not being equal to men
  • World War 1 broke out 1914
  • Ended in 1918
  • Australia recruited soldiers to support Allies fighting against The Central Powers
  • 19-38 year old men were enlisted
  • 3,000 Australian women volunteered as nurse

  • Casualty rate would have been a lot higher
  • Saved lives
  • Enable soldiers to fight for our country
  • Each soldier prepared with their own first aid kit
  • Provided materials for minor occasions or no nurses available
  • Without nurses, soldiers only able to heal minor wounds
  • Vital aspect in aiding soldiers

“I have never regretted that I took the notion into my head to take on nursing, for it has opened up opportunities that I would never have had.” Sister Jessie Tomlins

[Tomlins, 1920]

  • Women support the Allies
  • encountered a profusion of death and injuries
  • volunteered to be close to the front line
  • felt useless sitting at home
  • wanted to either stay in their own country and work in hospitals
  • Weren't fully acknowledged
  • Were tough, resilient and wanted to be apart of the fight
  • Women were not allowed to be soldiers
  • one female passed her self as a male
  • wanted to be known for their effort, not an afterthought
  • why many chose to serve as nurses

How important was the role of Australian Nurses in WW1?

Australian Nurses in WW1

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